lesson 9

• Eng
• Secundair onderwijs

Review

Check your answers in groups using the keys (1 min). 

If your results are not what you expected or you weren't present on Friday: 

-Watch this video (save the link now)

- Complete ex. 1, 2, 3 on p. 214-215 before Friday

Completion time: 25-30 min.

TIPS

What to do if you are not satisfied with your results?

Try to practice your listening skills outside the classroom.
Check BBC radio, find good YouTube channels about the topics that interest you (science, health, art, etc.). 

Spot the mistakes and correct them

• I agree with something 
• It makes me feel good/bad/sad/happy
• Only a small part of humanity does something 
• The video have made me feel
• I didn't hear any ideas that.....

How can we clarify this ‘something’/'stuff' using appropriate words? In pairs.

Some examples

Negative actions (use different parts of speech: nouns, adjectives, verbs)

Pollution (air, water, soil) – to pollute

Deforestation – to deforest

Wars

Overconsumption

Climate injustice

Positive actions

Don’t waste food, natural resources

Buy long-lasting items

Recycling 

Planting trees

Use public transport

How can you correct these examples of informal writing?

Rewrite your text on a separate sheet of paper based on the feedback points

- Correct your grammar, spelling, punctuation, register

- Rewrite unclear sentences

- Make sure any reader can understand what you mean

- When you are ready, check the evaluation box and give yourself points.

Write two tips for yourself to improve your writing based on the evaluation box and your results

If you weren’t present in class on Friday

1. Write a short text (about 100 words) about what people and you personally can do to protect the environment and why it is important (10 min).

Possible actions:

- Recycling

- Not throwing away food

- Repairing instead of throwing away

- Consuming less

- Think of the video Zero Waste and the text about Earth Overshoot Day

What will you learn today?

Summarising a text in form of an outline

Go to p. 198 (in pairs)

- Read the first part of the text until ‘A complex issue’

Highlight:

- the topic sentence with one colour

- 4 key words with a different colour

- the main figures and numbers in the third colour.

- Compare your answers

What are 4 keys words that have your chosen?

Continue reading the text using the same technique of highlighting (10 min)

- the topic sentence with one colour

- 4 key words with a different colour

- the main figures and numbers in the third colour.

Fill in the outline on p. 201 based on the text

First, add 4 most important figures you have highlighted in the text in ‘Climate Change’ box.

Human health (in pairs)

1. What is the topic sentence? 

2. Lives are at risk because of ....?

3. Why are floods dangerous?

4.  What the most vulnerable groups? 

Water (in pairs)

What is the topic sentence? 

What are three key words? (one in each paragraph)

Why is snowpack important? 

How do warm temperatures affect snowpack?

Food 

What is the topic sentence?

What will happen to agricultural technologies?

What can farm workers suffer from?

What is the impact of rising temperatures on livestock?

The environment

Person 1: Formulate a question about the subtext ‘The environment’ by rolling a die.

1 = What Q

2 = How / how much/ how many Q

3 = When Q

4 = Why Q

5 = Do/Does Q

6 = Can Q

Person 2: Answers the question using the text.

Reverse the roles.

Fill in the outline of The Environment (in pairs)

What is the topic sentence in each paragraph?  

What will happen to the Arctic?

What will happen to plants and 'nuisance species'?

What changes are occuring in the ocean?

What are the effects in ecosystems? 

Homework: choose a nice picture related to the environment and the topic of this unit Man/Nature relationship before Friday

• It can be a picture you took yourself or picture you  found on the internet.
  
• You still have time to take a picture yourself before Friday.
  
• Choose a picture you are prepared to share with the class.
  
• It should be on you school laptop – so you can share it during the class.